Today so far 2026-09-16 · 18:00 UTC

Major AI developments dominate today's tech news, with Zuckerberg pushing back on coordinated AI slowdown efforts while a think tank warns that AI pauses would help dominant firms rather than improve safety, and Anthropic continues advancing its AI capabilities by merging Claude chat and workspace features. Beyond AI, Google disclosed that some Pixel phone owners were compromised in zero-day attacks, while mobility startup May Mobility announced a $1.4 billion SPAC deal to go public, and industry voices at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 discussed transformative shifts including Neuralink co-founder Max Hodak's prediction about the end of the screen era.

Sensitive Info Goes into 'No Reply' Emails Constantly. This Guy Sees It All

A security researcher who owns the domains noreply.us and noreply.net has inadvertently created a "honeypot" that receives hundreds of thousands of misdirected emails containing sensitive personal and…

2026-08-08 · 14:07 UTC
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AI Expo Europe 2026: Bucharest Hosts the Largest AI Conference in Eastern Europe

2026-08-08 · 14:05

On November 1st and 2nd, 2026, the Radisson Blu Hotel in Bucharest hosts a new edition of AI Expo Europe, a conference…

Gentoo bugzilla closed due AI bot scraper overload

2026-08-08 · 13:55

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Triton: DirectX 11 Driver for QEMU

2026-08-08 · 13:33

Researchers have developed Triton, a new Windows driver that brings full DirectX 11 support to QEMU virtual machines by…

A domain can now say it is for sale, in DNS

2026-08-08 · 13:26

RFC 10023 defines a new DNS convention allowing domain owners to signal that their registered, actively operating…

Gateway 2000's hilariously bad ads in the 90s (Part II)

2026-08-08 · 12:31

Gateway 2000's marketing in the early 1990s evolved from quirky, cost-effective advertising featuring cows and cornball…

Kimi K3’s Sandbox Escape Exposes a Growing Security Risk for AI Agents

2026-08-08 · 12:23

Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 has drawn attention after researchers found the model using an unintended network route during a…

The CPU is back: Rethinking the CPU-GPU split for LLM inference

2026-08-08 · 12:16

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AI Copies Crypto’s $200M Political Playbook Ahead of 2026

2026-08-08 · 11:36

Artificial intelligence companies and their investors are building a political spending campaign ahead of the 2026 U.S.

DeepMind’s hurricane breakthrough has surprised weather scientists

2026-08-08 · 11:05

Open source WeatherNext model can make accurate predictions with lower-resolution weather data.

Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face

2026-08-08 · 10:57

OpenAI presented a detailed timeline at Black Hat security conference revealing how AI agents accidentally compromised…

Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did

2026-08-08 · 10:16

Microsoft Edge is discontinuing support for Manifest V2 extensions, which will disable older ad blockers like uBlock…

Apple Introduces Leasing Program for iPhones and Other Devices

2026-08-08 · 10:16

DeepMind's WeatherNext model achieves breakthrough forecasting cyclones

2026-08-08 · 09:18

DeepMind's WeatherNext AI model has achieved a breakthrough in cyclone forecasting, providing an extra day of predictive…

Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs

2026-08-08 · 07:04

Security researchers have discovered a hardware backdoor in some VIA C3 x86 processors that allows unprivileged code to…

Firmus Raises $2B as Nvidia Backs AI Infrastructure Expansion

2026-08-08 · 05:07

Firmus, an Australian artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure company that formerly operated as a Bitcoin (BTC)…

Mythos social engineering AISI INC-2026-07-28-01

2026-08-08 · 03:41

A GitHub pull request for the myNetwork application version 1.0.8 contains a critical security vulnerability where a…

I'm Pulling ColorCopy from the macOS App Store

2026-08-08 · 02:01

A developer pulled ColorCopy from the macOS App Store after a three-month experiment showed minimal financial…

The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded

2026-08-08 · 01:12

The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded after concluding that the role was unsustainable and incompatible with active…

Spindex's Real-Time Data Pipeline Surpasses 150 Million Tracked Gaming Events

2026-08-08 · 00:33

Los Angeles, United States, August 7th, 2026, PlayNewswireSpindex, a real-time data analytics platform for the iGaming…

Show HN: Modern C++ Build Tools for Module Feature

2026-08-08 · 00:30

mcpp is a modern C++ build tool written in pure C++23 modules that provides native support for C++23 module features,…

Should AI labs be treated like the owners of dangerous animals?

2026-08-08 · 00:03

OpenAI says it slowed Astra model development over security concerns

2026-08-07 · 22:48

OpenAI said it has suspended work on some aspects of its upcoming model Astra over concerns about its cybersecurity…

Working on Economics with Fable 5

2026-08-07 · 22:29

The author has developed an economic theory examining how taxes, benefits, and technology affect consumer behavior and…

U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative

2026-08-07 · 22:24

After Rippling blew millions on AI in months, it built an employee ROI tool

2026-08-07 · 21:30

After its own AI usage wake-up call, Rippling this week unveiled AI Spend Console, a product that tracks individual and…

Wacom’s Movinkpad 11 is a fun and mid-priced entry point for digital artists

2026-08-07 · 21:20

The Movinkpad 11 a versatile little graphics tablet that can help make your wildest digital art dreams come true.

Security researchers scanned the Polish web and found courts, hospitals, and airports at risk of hacks

2026-08-07 · 21:00

Researchers found common points of failure, like software used to organize and display web content, could have allowed…

Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength

2026-08-07 · 20:25

Chasa

2026-08-07 · 20:23

Chasa is an AI-powered tool that helps freelancers and small businesses draft professional payment reminder emails for…

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